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I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
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America
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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.
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Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.
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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
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A life without tragedy would not be worth living.
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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
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My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
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Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world.
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Great art is never perfect perfect art is never great.
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One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough.
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The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.
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